sheer in the PONS Dictionary

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I.sheer1 [ʃɪəʳ, Am ʃɪr] ADJ

II.sheer1 [ʃɪəʳ, Am ʃɪr] ADV liter

sheer2 [ʃɪəʳ, Am ʃɪr] VB intr NAUT

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by sheer willpower
само с воля и дух
it's sheer folly!
това е чиста глупост!

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sheer Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

by (sheer) force of numbers
само поради числено превъзходство
a sheer drop
стръмен склон
it's sheer folly!
това е чиста глупост!
sheer drop
отвесен склон
by sheer willpower
само с воля и дух
to be (sheer) hell fig
това е (истински) ад
by sheer force of numbers
поради числено превъзходство
by sheer force of habit
просто по навик
sheer [or pure] chance
чиста случайност
sheer [or steep] cliffs
отвесни скали

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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It is usually placed in a decorative (often wooden) bowl, or tied in small sachet made from sheer fabric.
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The sheer scale is mind-boggling.
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Can you imagine the sheer terror if a 10-foot, armour-plated fish suddenly surfaced next to your canoe?
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The classic shoes for wearing with a pencil skirt are high heels, with sheer stockings or tights.
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For sheer cheek and effrontery, the midfielder's brilliant second-half goal stood out above all others.
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The problem was that the sheer number of people they stopped guaranteed that stop-and-frisk would get untethered from that logic.
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Police, overwhelmed by the sheer size of the crowd, pulled out.
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Tennis skirts came in sheer silks crafted in cerulean blue and slate greys and naturally came with matching blouses.
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Lumps of the hulk were lifted up the sheer cliffs using ropes and pulleys, the salvers using rope ladders for access.
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Perhaps the largest obstacle to testing occurs with the sheer diversity of nanoparticles, of which the only unifying factor is their minuscule size.
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